Black and white photograph of guests at the Paradise Club in Idlewild, Michigan, which hosted such acts as Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Louis Armstrong. Idlewild was one of the most popular vacation destinations in Michigan during the first half of the Twentieth Century. It was also one of the only vacation spots in the United States where African-Americans were allowed to purchase property and vacation until such discriminatory practices were abolished in the 1960s, and was known as the "Black Eden."